Report: The Big Business of Small Business

The basic needs of small businesses are easy to describe—they need to collect payment for goods and services and record the amounts. But they are also often not good at anything outside of the delivery of goods and performance of services. Increasingly, small business accounting products seek to remove the language of accounting from products used by those who often do not understand financial terms or business concepts. The web, meanwhile, has made it easier for entrepreneurs to develop accounting software and enabled companies of all kinds to compete internationally. Yes, small business is big business and getting bigger. Download to read about all these new developments.

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